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...And once you've gotten off that airplane, know that we've come up with a new way of making those servers more personally productive as well, and it has nothing to do with to-do lists. Late last week, we announced new virtualization capabilities for service-oriented architectures. The new capabilities for IBM's System p servers help maximize utilization of your existing hardware and software resources by helping centralize tasks, streamline your business processes, and improve your overall system performance. Learn more about these new... [More]

This is a post about personal productivity, or the lackthereof. I spent most of today on a plane back to New York today, this time for a visit to my old stompingground, IBM ’s offices in Westchester County . F ortunately, on the ATL -LGAleg the guy to my right up and moved to another seat, so I moved to the window seatand was able to finally pop open my ThinkPad to try and get some work donepropped up on the middle seat-back table. However, prior to that I was reading an article in Newsweek about personal productivity gurus. You know, Robert... [More]

I’ve had some time to synthesize some of the key memes I heard in and around SXSW Interactive, and here they are distilled for your near-sound byte consumption (and yes, some are obvious, but stating the obvious isn’t a bad thing when it’s obvious!) Online video is poised for a full-on breakout, but significant issues abound. You know, like that billion $$ lawsuit the Viacom gang filed against Gootube. Also, concerns linger about the increasingly filled pipes (Where’s Senator Stevens when you need him?) and Net... [More]

Holy Web conferencing, Batman! Cisco's buying WebEx for a cool $3.2B U.S., according to Reuters. Meanwhile, back at the Google search ranch the Googlers have gotten that privacy religion, announcing that they will now anonymize server log data after 18 to 24 months (well, which is it? 18 or 24??) Though the U.S. Department of Justice wouldn't necessarily agree, to my mind this was a step in the right direction. I've thought for many Internet years that Google was sitting on a virtual personal data nuclear bomb with respect to... [More]

IBM is offering up assistance to the blind and visually impaired to provide improved access to Web-based multimedia with a new technology from our Tokyo Research Lab. As the press release indicates, existing tools help those with low or no vision navigate via screen-reading software and self-talking browsers. But as the Web becomes more multimedia rich, there is a clear need for providing easier access to these new and often "full motion" information streams. The new technology helps the blind and visually impaired experience streaming... [More]

Let's get the record straight on me and gaming: I started out playing Pong and Atari 2600, worked my way up through Coleco, standup Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Galaga, topping off in high school with the original Donkey Kong. Since those earlier years, I've dabbled with my PS2 and X-Box, and I'm more twitch than strategy. But for my money, watching Will Wright's "Spore" demo today was like watching yet another paradigm shift in the possibilities of gaming and technology. Possibilities light years away from Space Invaders. If... [More]

SXSW is winding down. The afternoon moved so quickly, I was never able to catch up on blogging Dan Rather's keynote. But C|NET has a nice wrap up here. In the meantime, lots of digitally relevant news today. First, the New York Times is telling us computers actually do make us more productive. Om Malik is reporting that Microsoft is said to be in talks to acquire Tellme, the voice applications company and dot com survivor. Topic.Net is learning the negative impact that domain transitions can have on a site's Google Juice. And Viacom has... [More]

Speaking of search, there are folks out there still looking for UFOs, and IBM is happy to help in their quest. Our OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is helping assist in the search for flying saucers, ghosts, and other mysteries. The Anomalies Network is using OmniFind to power its UFOCrawler, helping fellow skywatchers to conduct advanced research and tap information and knowledge sources relevant to UFO sightings, time travel, conspiracy theories, and anomalies. By way of example, you may have heard of Area 51. UFOCrawler can help you... [More]

There was also a Big Blue enterprise search-related announcement today. Our new IBM OmniFind Analytics Edition is intended for extracting and analyzing unstructured information with the express purpose of providing trend analysis, automated alerting, semantic and key word search, and a whole lot more. The engine was built with actual IBM customer experience feeding the new search beast, including HDFC Bank India, Mayo Clinic, Mars Incorporated, and numerous others. It is, in essence, intended to help you find that needle in the... [More]

Dan Rather just got a standing ovation before ever uttering a word. The new media crowd apparently likes this old media stalwart who, I expect to hear, is quickly making his way into the new media milieu. When he did speak, he was responding to a question re: Watergate, and made it very clear he would answer the question, but wants to spend this session talking about the problems and challenges we face today, and the opportunities emerging technology presents for journalism. But on Watergate, he said simply this: The president (Nixon) of... [More]